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Online class for Advanced blowing beads

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Advanced BLOWING class beads

IMPORTANT NOTICE! please make sure we are "friends" on facebook or I can't add you to the private group.

This is the repeat follow-up class of the beginner blown beads class. If you have blown beads before then you are able to follow this course.

In this online class you will learn how to decorate different shaped beads with all kinds of detail and colour!

Corresponding list of the class videos and demos

1. Advanced Blowing beads welcome

2. Class introduction

3. Tools

4. Mashers

5. Twisted stringer bead

6. WigWag bead

7. Black bead with white squares

8. Bead with enamels and murrini

9. Black lace with goldstone and encasined in clear

10. Large bead with black lace, blue , white, yellow and dichro

11. Large disc bead with twisty, in blue and white colours

12. Lentil bead with shards , murrini and enamels

13. Tapered tube bead with goldstone and opal yellow

14. Blowing shards with enamels

15. Encasing a solid gather

16. Demo on how to cut the tube bead end

17. lentil bead remake of number 12!

Glass requirements

Effetre Black intense
Efftere black 064
Reichenbach deep black R104
Cobalt blue opaque 246
light periwinkle blue 220
White opaque 204
Light Red opaque 428
Orange opaque 412
Yellow opaque 416
Dark periwinkle opaque 222
Pea green opaque 212
Pink opaque CIM gellysty pink or simmilar
Transparent green 020
Opal yellow or dark ivory opaque 266p Special glass or 276
Clear 006
Light aqua transparent 038
Opaque Enamels from thompsons
frits or enamel frits from thompsons
gold stone stringer/ribbon

Beside your regular tools these are extra tools you will need.

6mm stainless steel blowpipe with an inner wall dimension of 4mm.

3-4mm stainless steel blow pipe

Tongs with fire resistant fabric to grab your bead

Spare mandrel or thin punty

Vermiculite or fiber blanket

Parallel mashers at least 5cm square or our custom

made parallel mashers, which are 7cm round discs.

XL lentil press 18mm deep

Links where to purchase the tools will be in the group once you have registered for the class.

The demonstrations will consist of pre-recorded audio visual session. Starting with an introduction video and separate videos of different shapes and designs. The video will be available on the Facebook group created for the students that will have registered and paid. The group including all videos will stay available once the online class is over.

NOTE! Please make sure your facebook name is on your paypal payment, I am having trouble assigning names to the payments , Thanks

( If your name is different from PayPal to Facebook add a note so I can reconcile them)

If the videos are shared or viewed without having registered for the class I will remove the offender from the group.

By signing up you agree to the terms and conditions set out in this document.

Astrid Riedel

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Great service, fast shipping, and very reasonable prices for products of such quality!

Erik Johnson

Los Angeles, California